The Production of Techno-Scientific Articles Worldwide

The value of scientific production worldwide grew between 2013 and 2020 by an amount equal to 37.25%. China's science-tech production surpassed America's in 2016. Since then, China's science-tech production value has grown further to 669,744 units. In a broad sense, it is possible to note a growth in the production of techno-scientific articles in almost all countries. However, the growing role of the new Asian giants, namely China and India, which together produce about 800,000 techno-scientific articles, is indisputable. Controlling the productivity of techno-scientific articles is relevant as the current global economic condition is based on technological comparison especially in the IT, new energies and new materials fields. It follows therefore that countries seek a new hegemony in the knowledge economy also through the growth of investments in research and development. However, it must be considered that the growth of Asian countries leads to a certain marginalization of the West in the aggregate sense, even if many Western countries have nevertheless increased the number of their techno-scientific publications, as for example in the case of Italy. On the other hand, the case of France goes against the trend, where the number of techno-scientific articles published decreased from 2013 to 2020. It is therefore necessary that the Western world continue to invest heavily in research and development and create incentives for the production of techno-scientific articles in order to continue to be competitive internationally and to support economic growth.